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Posts tagged with 'virus' and 'flu' at MetaFilter.Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:11:25 -0800Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:11:25 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60You're breathing a potentially dangerous substancehttp://www.metafilter.com/155795/Youre%2Dbreathing%2Da%2Dpotentially%2Ddangerous%2Dsubstance
Writer Michael Rosenwald called on Steven Welty to identify a strange smell in his home. Welty knows a lot about how air moves, and he knows about the stuff in moving air that can make us sick and die. From <a href="http://www.popsci.com/take-deep-breath">Popular Science</a>: <em>The initial outbreak at the Hong Kong hotel was bad, but the most chilling incident occurred in an apartment complex called the Amoy Gardens. There, a single man with really bad diarrhea infected 321 people, killing more than 40. Scarier still, he did it from the solitude of his own bathroom. Welty and other airborne disease specialists have pointed to either the building's plumbing or fan system (or both) as spreading virus-laced droplets through the air, infecting unwitting neighbors who breathed the stuff as it crept through open windows on a beautiful Hong Kong night. A New England Journal of Medicine paper in 2004 pointed out, "The SARS epidemic provides an opportunity for the critical reevaluation of the aerosol transmission of communicable respiratory diseases."</em> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.155795Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:11:25 -0800bryonThe Common Cold Unit: 1946-1989http://www.metafilter.com/143698/The%2DCommon%2DCold%2DUnit%2D1946%2D1989
&lsquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feiaQG6lFRI" title="'Colds to Order' - a '50s British Path&eacute; newsreel clip about the CCRU (YouTube)">Free 10 Day Autumn or Winter Break</a>: You may not win a Nobel Prize, but <a href="http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/09/fighting-the-cold-war-david-tyrrell-and-the-common-cold/" title="'Fighting the cold war: David Tyrrell and the common cold' by Elena Carter">you could help find a cure</a> for <a href="http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/23/dillon.php" title="'Virus Camp' by Brian Dillon, at Cabinet Magazine">the common cold.</a>&rsquo; tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143698Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:42:24 -0800misteraitchWe could use a few pointers on prudence.http://www.metafilter.com/143615/We%2Dcould%2Duse%2Da%2Dfew%2Dpointers%2Don%2Dprudence
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/opinion/frank-bruni-scarier-than-ebola.html?smid=fb-share">"During the 2013-2014 flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 46 percent of Americans received vaccinations against influenza, even though it kills about 3,000 people in this country in a good year, nearly 50,000 in a bad one."</a> NYT: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/nyregion/fear-of-vaccines-goes-viral.html">Fear of Vaccines Goes Viral:</a> <em>"You look around and most of the deaths in the world are from contagious diseases. Not ISIS."</em>
NPR: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/09/354819773/4-things-weve-learned-about-enterovirus-d68-and-1-mystery">4 Things We've Learned About Enterovirus D68, And 1 Mystery</a> <em>Cases have been reported in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Though the CDC has confirmed 664 cases as of Wednesday, there are undoubtedly many, many more cases that are causing milder coldlike illnesses. "This is different this year, what we're seeing," Milstone said. "Something is different."</em>
NBC News: <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-flu/flu-shot-slowdown-peeves-pediatricians-n222651">Flu Shot Slowdown Peeves Pediatricians</a> <em>Flu vaccine supplies depend on the private market. Vaccines are made by drug companies and they decide how much to make. But the federal government influences this by buying vaccines for use in child vaccination programs. Federal advisers also decide on the formulation.</em>
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/142673/Vaccination-map-of-Los-Angeles-schools">Previously, recently.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143615Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:06:36 -0800roomthreeseventeenNature's Perfect Killing Machine Can Be Killed With Soaphttp://www.metafilter.com/140680/Natures%2DPerfect%2DKilling%2DMachine%2DCan%2DBe%2DKilled%2DWith%2DSoap
<a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/natures-most-perfect-killing-machine">Ebola is nightmare fuel: a biological doomsday device conspiring with our bodies to murder us in uniquely gruesome fashion. It's also killed fewer than 2,000 people. How has a virus with such a modest body count so fiercely captured the darkest corners of our imagination?</a> - Leigh Cowart for Haziltt. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140680Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:41:48 -0800The WhelkH7N9: The next pandemic?http://www.metafilter.com/126649/H7N9%2DThe%2Dnext%2Dpandemic
<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/01/is_this_a_pandemic_being_born_china_pigs_virus?page=full">Is this a pandemic being born?</a> <small>[<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQIDAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AR25BKnhufS8J%3Awww.foreignpolicy.com%2Farticles%2F2013%2F04%2F01%2Fis_this_a_pandemic_being_born_china_pigs_virus%2B%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk&ei=drdbUbzFJaed0AXMjYDwDA&usg=AFQjCNGgDs8TkllrLCm80qLy5RDIkSeZbQ&sig2=Vdg-56FJOmjQHo-iieSd9Q&bvm=bv.44697112,d.d2k">Google cache</a>]</small> The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/02/h7n9-chinese-avian-flu-mammal-adaptation_n_3002804.html">H7N9 (Bird) Flu Virus May Have Adapted To Mammals</a>. The <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/02/who-investigating-h7n9-chinese-bird-flu-strain">WHO is investigating</a>. <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/772610.shtml">Four new human cases were identified late Tuesday</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126649Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:11:00 -0800spockThe Avian Flu: Transparency vs. Public Safetyhttp://www.metafilter.com/115573/The%2DAvian%2DFlu%2DTransparency%2Dvs%2DPublic%2DSafety
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10831.html">"Experimental adaptation of an influenza H5 HA confers respiratory droplet transmission to a reassortant H5 HA/H1N1 virus in ferrets."</a> After an <a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/emotion-runs-high-at-h5n1-debate.html">extensive</a>, months-long <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/engineered-h5n1-published">debate</a>, one of two <a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/04/dangerous-flu-mutations-revealed.html">controversial</a> papers showing ways the H5N1 "avian" influenza virus could potentially become transmissible in mammals with only 3 or 4 mutations was <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/mutant-flu-paper-published-1.10551">published</a> in <em>Nature</em> today. The journal included an editorial on the merits and drawbacks of "<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/485005a.html">publishing risky research</a>" with regard to biosafety. The debate included an unprecedented recommendation</a> by The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to block publication -- a decision <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/us-biosecurity-board-revises-stance-on-mutant-flu-studies-1.10369">they later reversed.</a> (Via: <a href="http://io9.com/5907096/nature-goes-ahead-and-publishes-study-explaining-how-to-create-deadly-mutant-bird-flu">1</a>, <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112527266/controversial-avian-flu-research-finally-published/">2</a>) <em>Nature</em>'s <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/specials/mutantflu/index.html">special report</a> has additional articles, including interviews with the teams behind both papers. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.115573Thu, 03 May 2012 07:25:42 -0800zarqThis would make a really good movie.http://www.metafilter.com/109926/This%2Dwould%2Dmake%2Da%2Dreally%2Dgood%2Dmovie
Locked up in the bowels of the medical faculty building here and accessible to only a handful of scientists lies a <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/scientists-brace-for-media-storm.html">man-made flu virus that could change world history</a> if it were ever set free. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109926Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:50:36 -0800pashdownYou Got Transmissibility in My Lethality!http://www.metafilter.com/86699/You%2DGot%2DTransmissibility%2Din%2DMy%2DLethality
In a hot lab in the center of Lyon, <a href="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-05/hot-zone-couture">space-suited</a> virologists want to create a superflu as contagious as H1N1 and as lethal as H5N1. Why? <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091111/full/462154a.html#c">So nature doesn't get there first.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86699Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:06:22 -0800drdangerIs H5N1 flu transitioning to human-to-human transmission?http://www.metafilter.com/47194/Is%2DH5N1%2Dflu%2Dtransitioning%2Dto%2Dhumantohuman%2Dtransmission
<a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/02/content_3867374.htm">Is H5N1 flu transitioning</a> to a human-to-human illness? Recent <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/nov2805family.html">reports of familial clusters</a> suggest that it may be, though there are certainly other possible explanations, such as families living in environments contaminated by virus-laden bird feces. On the other hand, it would seem that epidemiologists are growing increasingly interested in the possibility that these clusters are indicative of human-to-human transmissions. Further, the virus may be inching towards being asymptomatic, which isn't as good as it sounds: if people can carry the virus and transmit it to others without showing symptoms, it will be very difficult to impossible to tell who is a vector and highly difficult to control any emerging epidemic. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47194Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:30:31 -0800chakalakasp